Hampi - Meet the Flinstones!!

Hampi was amazing. From start to finish we absolutely loved it.
I think it was good karma straight away that as soon as we arrived we met a guy called Ray who recognised our Stoke accents and then proceeded to tell us that he once travelled with a guy from Stoke who I only went to High School with!! If ever the saying 'it's a small world' was more apt.

We met some more lovely people and pretty much spent the next few days on scooters with them exploring the incredible landscape. Everywhere our eyes could see there were huge sandstones boulders that were perfectly perched on top of each other, amongst rivers, Temples, mountains and lush green paddy fields. I know it sounds very cliched but it felt very magical........but it also looked just like the well crafted film set of a Flintstones movie!! We would not have been surprised to see Fred sliding down the back of a Dinsosaur or taking a shower under an Elephants trunk!

As a brucey bonus it was also Cricket World Cup Fever and India (as you know) were in the final against Sri Lanka so we got to watch the match with a the great group of friends we'd made, drinking 'Knockout' 8% Beer & eating Pizza. As my Dad would say 'What could be finer?!'

The photos I'll post probably wont do the place justice, but so far it's our most favourite place we have visited in India